February 12, 2006

Japan, like the U.S., is a bit schizophrenic in its tastes: they turn out some of the most horrid pop imaginable, but also hands-down the best rock anywhere in the not-quite-living-up-to- its-name "ring of fire" (I’m looking at you, Kamchatka), and arguably in all of Euraustralafricasia. America, as usual, owns all. Don't try to out-badass a country where the sitting VP reserves the right to fucking shoot people.

Anyway, (the) Noodles are sort of Japan's answer to the Breeders. Jeremy, always the SAT instructor, very aptly summed it up as